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School of Medicine Dean Richard E. Behrman formed a Center for Biomedical Ethics in the late 1980s, and appointed Thomas Murray as the Director. Dr. Murray stayed in that position for approximately 10 years before going on to become the director of The Hastings Center. Dr. Stuart Youngner was appointed Director of the Center in 2001. The Center became the country’s first Department of Bioethics in a medical school in 2001.

In February 2015, Dr. Youngner stepped down as Department Chair. Mark Aulisio, Ph.D., was appointed Interim Chair.